Greenhorn
#b2cc9a
A green that is nearly neutral — the hue shows only against a true grey. It is very light — it works as a page background, not as text.
Hex
#b2cc9a
RGB
178, 204, 154
OKLCh
81.3% 0.073 130.3°
CIELAB (D50)
79.1, -15.7, 22.0
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 5 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses only 33% of the chroma available at this lightness and hue — there is a far more vivid version of this colour inside sRGB.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 31.9; on black, Lc -70.8. The sign is the polarity, which the WCAG ratio discards.
- Built into an eleven-step scale, 10 of the 10 adjacent pairs stay ΔE00 2 apart — see the ramp.
- protanopia and deuteranopia and tritanopia shift it by ΔE00 8.0 and 8.1 and 33.5 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.75:1 — fails AA
Black text
12.00:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at12.00:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#667e4f is the nearest colour of the same hue that passes AA on white, at 4.50:1. Only the lightness moved.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#b2cc9a
protanopia
#c9c99a · ΔE00 8.0
deuteranopia
#c5c59b · ΔE00 8.1
tritanopia
#c0c0e7 · ΔE00 33.5
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isGarden Spot at ΔE00 1.002: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Garden SpotΔE00 1.002 · #b1ca95
- Desert CactusΔE00 1.458 · #afca9d
- ApiumΔE00 1.531 · #b5d0a2
- Oh PistachioΔE00 1.57 · #abca99
- Fava BeanΔE00 1.668 · #bad09d
- In Good TasteΔE00 2.002 · #b6d4a0
- Sheer GreenΔE00 2.006 · #b0c69a
- SproutΔE00 2.251 · #b8ca9d
- Geddy GreenΔE00 2.338 · #aac69a
- Wasabi PeanutΔE00 2.388 · #b4c79c
- New FrondΔE00 2.41 · #bacca0
- Spumoni GreenΔE00 2.593 · #bccfa4
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.